Improvement in tools for fastening bale-hoops



UNTTHO STATES PATENT @Frison E. A. JEFFERY, OF CORNING, NEW YORK.

llviPROvElvlEi-l IN TOOLS FOR FASTENING BALE-HOOPS.

Specification formingl part of Letters Patent N0. 24,464, dated June 2l To all whom it may concern: protuberanceb Beit known that I, E. A. JEFFERY, of Cor as a ham ning, in the county of Steuben and State of New York, have invented a new and useful 4Implement or Device for Applying Lock Bale-Hoops; and I do hereby declareth following is a full, clear, and exact tion of the same,l reference b annexed drawings, makin cation, in which- Figure lis a persp and hammer which f tion. Fig. 2 is ape represent a combined This device is also formed of V .a handles, e e, connected together fIcrum-pin, f, and having two curved aws, g g', as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. -The liaw g has its inner or face side made concave longitudinally, as shown at h, corresponding to the convexity of the outer side of the socket ofthe same. i of my hoop-lock, so that the socket 'i may and die. Fig. be fitted in the concave h. This will be clearly nds of bale-hoop understood by referring to Figs. 2,;4, and 6. vxvg the ends together. To the jaw g aspring, j, is attached, under pective view of the which the iiange of the socket passes. Thisv spring secures the socket t' in the concave h, y or prevents it from causally moving therein l, ve view of a hoop-lock when required to be adjusted in it. The ful- 'eceiving the two ends of a crum-pinfofthe pliers and dieprojectsbeyond f- Fig. 8 is a side view of allthe one of the handles e, and is parallel with a ng theinvention applied to their springjaw, k, which 1is secured in the lower part of the. jaw g, and has a spring, Z, bearing s etters of reference indicate correagainst it, said spring having a tendency to ,gparts in the several figures. keep the jaw 7c forced downward the full ex- Y sfinvention relates to a new and useful tent of its movement and somewhat'below the plement or device for applying to balecenter of the fucrum-pinf. (See more parops a lock for which Letters Patent were ticularly Fig. 8.) The jaw g has an arbor, m, granted to me bearing date December 2l, 1858. passing through it, said arbor having a cross' The object of the within-describedinvention bar, n, at its inner end, which bar is equalin to facilitate the application of said locks length to the socket fi. On the arbor m a the ends of the hoops, and enabling the spiral spring, 0, is placed, said spring having ds of the hoops to be drawn toward each a tendency to keep the cross-bar n within a ther with considerable force commensurate recess, p, in the inner side of the jaw g. (See with the strength ofthe operator, so that the Figs. 2 and 8.) A hoops,when locked, may lit snugly to the bale The above described parts comprise the before the same'is relieved from the pressure whole of the invention, which is used as folff the press. lows: After the bale is fully compressed and j To enable those skilled in the art to fully while in the press-box under pressure the inderstand and construct my invention, I will sheet-metal'hoop's are placed around it. The roceed to describe it. operator grasps the pliers and hammer A in A, Figs. 1 and 8, represents a pliers and one hand and seizes the upper part, q, of a A-harnmer combined. This device may be .of hoop,and at the same time with the other hand malleable cast-iron and formed of two jaws, a seizes the other end, r, of the hoop with the a, attached tothe ends of crossed handlesb, pliers and dieI B, the pliers of the latter device which are secured together by a fulcrum-pin, being formed of the extended portion of the c. One of the jaws a has a protuberance, d, fulcrum-pin f and the jaw, 7c which grasps the l opposite or in line with the fulcrum-pin c, said end r of the hoop as the device B is shoved 1. Y cross-bar fn upward. The two devices therefore are moved toward each vother simultaneously, and the ends g r of the hoop are made to overlap each other directly over thev socket e', which was previously rtted inthe concave h and retained in proper place by the spring j. 'Ihe operator then closes the jaws g g by pressing toward each other the handles e e, and the ends ofthe hoop are firmly retained. The operator is then enabled to relinquish the grasp on the end q of the hoop, and uses the device A as a hammer, dr' 'ng inward the arbor m and tterbending the overlapped he socket t, as shown in ave h serving as l? By this invention' y erable.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is` l 1.. The employment or use of the combined pliers and `die B, constructed and arranged substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination of the pliers and hammer A with the pliers and die B, arranged for joint operation substantially as described.

Y E. A. J EFFERY.

Witnesses:

Y WM. A. Joven, ERASMUS D. WILLIAMS. 

